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Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris
Date: ca. 1769
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm)
Where to see it: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fletcher Fund, 1937 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗

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About Jean Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.

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